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Philpax

8,713karma·1,330submissions·October 1, 2013
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I don't think you're talking about the same thing? The parent poster is talking about Excel's ability to spread computational steps across rows and columns (i.e. the structure of the co…
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AMD have repeatedly dropped the ball when it comes to software support for compute and AI. Their hardware is quite capable, but very few people can actually make it work, which means most of the exist…
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> For something to die at 3am in production, that means either someone pushed code way too late, or something changed in the stack unpredictability. I don't think those are the only two scenar…
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...why does a presumably static page need to store cookies?
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Hm, I can't say I've ever wanted to convert to paper formatting; it's almost always wanting to convert from paper formatting, so that I can better read papers on my e-reader or such…
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Pretty sure they're referring to the act of caste discrimination.
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Again, they're using it as an example of something that might be possible, not saying that this is what you should be doing. ...and even if they were, wouldn't it be nice to focus on solving…
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They're pretty clear that that's not possible with the current state of affairs. They're speculating about a future in which that may happen, which seems pretty reasonable to me - we do…
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What are you saying?
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Source?
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I think it's a fair question to ask; what particular qualities of D drew them off the beaten path for this kind of task? Now, I know the answer as a former D acolyte - it's an interesting la…
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> So, to readers here, I can assure you that caste had absolutely nothing to do with OPs election/non-election as a faculty member That's a strong claim to make for someone who was not at…
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Yes, and?
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Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen...
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Not only that, but their generative models could contribute significantly to the problem of content production for the metaverse. If the end goal is for anyone to be able to construct their own virtua…
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This has nothing to do with Bard.
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Minor correction - the original version of GitHub Copilot was released in late-2021.
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https://www.rwkv.com/ and notably its semi-adaptation to SNNs https://github.com/ridgerchu/SpikeGPT …
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The generated results can come from other means - for example, pretraining on rendered CG imagery is quite popular in the computer vision world, especially for problems where acquiring ground truth da…
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Um... you might want to check your tens digit.
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Being able to operate in spaces designed for humans and being able to operate things designed for humans. You can have other form factors - and indeed we do in the vacuum robots - but they can't …
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procreate_(software)#Notable_u... …
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To elucidate on this: the LLM can be viewed as a function that takes the context as an attachment and produces a probability distribution for the next token over all known tokens. Most inference sampl…
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My interpretation of the parent post is not that LLMs' output should be checked by humans, or that they are used in domains where physical verification is expensive; no, what they're suggest…
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Sure, but even then you're expected to back up your speculation. There doesn't seem to be anything within the article to support the claim that we're at the tail end of development; jus…
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ControlNet offers a wide variety of additional input sources: https://stable-diffusion-art.com/controlnet/#Preprocessors_a... …
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That's pretty easily fixable if you train a LoRA or similar so that the model has a specific likeness in mind. (You can look at - and despair at - Civitai if you want proof.) It's harder to …
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There haven't been any solid rulings on the copyright validity of human-driven AI generation yet. There have been a few cases, but they've been muddied by complicating factors (not a human d…
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You can, yes: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... …
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